In her second memoir, "Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi-Gras Queen", Marie Etienne tells the chilling story of mental illness inherited by generations of her family. Her grandmother spent more than thirty years in a mental facility, a... Read More

Much like Thoreau John Muir Rachel Carson Mary Austin and Marjory Stoneman Douglas before him Scott Russell Sanders knows dearly the intimate ways in which humans are connected to the land. Like his forbears he marvels at the beauties of... Read More

“I need a quest,” twelve-year-old Jonah tells God. “Hear that? I want a quest. You took my dad. The least you could do is give me some direction.” In fact, God has already prepared a quest for Jonah, teasing him with the... Read More

Pham Xuan An’s story is as intriguing as it is revealing about the Vietnam War. The author’s masterful account shows how An, who spent more than half a century providing critical intelligence for North Vietnam, faced certain death if... Read More

Historical fiction and futuristic star-battle fantasy are combined in this debut novel by Ren Garcia. The book’s hero is Captain Davage a Lord of the League of Elders who commands the Stellar Fleet vessel Seeker dressed in military... Read More

Brian Evenson will stump you-one is tempted to say literally-with "Last Days" (Underland Press, 978-0-9802260-0-3), and for that some readers will give him a hand, and maybe a finger or toe as well. In this mystery-horror combo, the... Read More

Soft illustrations help tell the story of a baby sea turtle who follows city lights instead of the stars and ends up lost and confused. Animals try to help him by suggesting he could be a painted turtle or a terrapin, and although he... Read More

"Persephone in America" (Southern Illinois University Press, 978-0-8093-2896-3) is poet Alison Townsends exploration of mothers, daughters, loss, and love. In this Crab Orchard Series winner, Townsend, who lost her own mother as a girl,... Read More